From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 02:28:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA13273 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA13114; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA27904; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:30:36 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:30:36 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour In-Reply-To: <199802241022.LAA01674@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote: > > > >But I also vaguely recall something like dump of VGA registers > > > >when booted with -v, so they are stored somewhere, right? > > > > > > The video BIOS ROM contains the table of STANDARD register values only. > > > We cannot know which additional registers should be set to what value. > > > > Ok. Call me stubborn, but why can't we just write the STANDARD register > > values corresponding to the initial state of the card, and if the screen > > is still garbled, well - at least we tried... But, my point is (or > > maybe I'm still wrong), that *most of the time* this will restore the card > > to some usable state... > > It will only work on a std VGA card in a std mode. All moderne video cards > demands specific programming (or what do you think the thousands of lines > of code in Xfree86 does :) ) > > So your answer is it will not work most of the time, if at all. Now you convinced me :-) Well, if this is the case I'll try to switch to the text mode as soon as I see the crash is coming... ;-> Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message